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VR Communications, Inc.
Office: 85 Rio Robles East, Unit 2411 - San Jose, CA 95134-1660
Websites: www.vrcommunications.com, www.xmldocs.info
To contact Anna: Mobile: 408-832-4212 - Email: avanraaphorst@gmail.com
To contact Dick: Mobile: 408-921-9639 - Email: rjohnson42@gmail.com
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Business Summary
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Business-to-business (1099) consultancy
working independently or in partnership with other consulting organizations.
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley).
Willing to travel, temporarily relocate, or work remotely.
California corporation since 1995 (founded in 1993).
Quick, high-quality results providing strong business value:
Broad-based U.S. and international business and management experience
and deep technical expertise. Practical solutions implemented in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost.
Our principals work independently or collaboratively,
depending on client requirements.
Business focus is DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) and other XML projects:
- Rapid prototyping (proof-of-concept using client content)
- Information architecture and content reuse
- Automation, integration, and other programmatic solutions
- Staged implementation (DITAworkflow™)
- Collaborative approach to information creation and management
Sample clients: Acta Technology (now Business Objects), Avid Technology, CERN (Geneva),
Community Vision of El Dorado Hills (CA), Citrix Systems, FedEx, IBM Corporation, IN2P3 (Paris),
Integrated Systems Inc. (now Wind River Systems, Inc.), Intuit, KEK (Tokyo) and IBM Japan, Kyocera International Inc.,
Mercury Interactive (now HP), Octel (now Avaya), PayPal (eBay), Pearson Charitable Foundation, Pillar Data Systems, RSF-EARTHSPEAK,
San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Savi Technology, Siebel Systems (now Oracle),
Skytide Inc., Stanford University, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), University of California at Santa Cruz,
VMware, and Women in Technology International.
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Anna van Raaphorst, Content Specialist
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Skills/Education |
- Over 20 years of experience doing information architecture, writing (technical and marketing),
editing, curriculum development, training, and website design and development
- Expert in architecting and creating structured content and doing legacy content conversions
- Strong quality and usability orientation
- Emphasis on collaborative, practical approach to problem solving
- Technical depth and business savvy unusual among writers
- Experience leading teams characterized by cultural diversity
and geographic separation
- Titles/roles: Principal technical writer, senior editor, senior planner, member of technical staff, marketing communications specialist, senior manager, manager of business partnerships
- Formal education, degrees: MA, linguistics -
Stanford University;
BA, German - UCLA; fluent in German (Zertifikat Deutsch,
Goethe Institute); some knowledge of Spanish
- Additional coursework:
California State University at Chico: certificate program in localization (granted June 2007); University of Washington: certificate programs
in Web technology solutions (granted April 2006) and content management;
University of California (Davis) Extension:
website development, XML; University of California Extension (Santa Cruz):
certificate program in website design and development, XML;
IBM Systems Research Institute (New York City); Goethe Institute
(Duesseldorf and Berlin, Germany); Intercultural Institute (Portland, OR);
Monterey Institute of International Studies (Monterey, CA)
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Technical Expertise / Tools |
- Specialist in DITA and DITA Open Toolkit, XML, DTD, XSLT,
and Ant
- Publishing environments: PDF, XHTML, Eclipse help, and HTML Help (.chm)
- Operating system environments: Windows, Linux/Unix, and Macintosh
- Technologies: XHTML, CSS, Python, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, and Microsoft Access
- Key tools: SyncRO Soft oXygen, Altova XML Spy,
Adobe FrameMaker (structured, unstructured), Arbortext Editor and Styler, justSystems XMetaL,
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat (PDF),
Microsoft Standard Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Microsoft Visio
- Key product categories: Publishing tools and document/content management systems,
content management and localization concepts and tools,
OLAP technologies, enterprise-level databases
and database-backed applications, storage management and subsystems,
IT governance and business technology
optimization, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
products (Siebel, SAP, and PeopleSoft)
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Richard H. (Dick) Johnson, Technology Specialist
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Skills/Education |
- Over 20 years of experience doing software design and development,
and implementing technology and communications solutions
- Software architect, designer, and developer
- Strong expertise in storage device hardware and software (holder of 7 patents), and XML-based technologies
- Results oriented, quick learner
- Quality and usability oriented
- Titles/roles: Senior Technical Staff Member,
senior software engineer, user consultant, speaker, trainer, writer, team leader
- Formal education, degrees: MA, mathematics - UCLA;
BA, mathematics - UCLA, graduated with highest honors, member of Phi Beta Kappa
- Additional coursework: University of California (Davis) Extension:
website development, XML; University of California Extension (Davis and Santa Cruz):
Java, HTML, XML, content management, Web services; University of Washington:
certificate program in Web technology solutions
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Technical Expertise / Tools |
- Specialist in DITA, and DITA Open Toolkit internals,
XML, DTD, XSLT, Ant, scripting tools
- Publishing environments: PDF, XHTML, Eclipse help, and HTML Help (.chm)
- Operating systems: Windows and UNIX application development
and internals
- Technologies and programming languages: XHTML, CSS, Python, PHP,
C, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, and Microsoft Access
- Key tools: SyncRO Soft oXygen, Altova XML Spy,
Adobe FrameMaker (structured, unstructured), Arbortext Editor and Styler, justSystems XMetaL,
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat (PDF),
Microsoft Standard Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Microsoft Visio
- Storage technologies: DASD, disk drives,
disk storage subsystems, tape libraries, and optical libraries;
SAN, fibre channel, and iSCSI
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